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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Children who live in homes that are heated with wood are more likely to develop respiratory illnesses than children who don't.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Cotton crops can be sprayed up to 40 times a year making it the most chemical-intensive crop in the world.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's boyhood home was built from plans purchased from a Sears catalog.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Former U.S. President William Taft converted the White House stable into a four car garage in 1909.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Frisbee got its name from William Russel Frisbee, who was a pie baker. He used to sell his pies in a thin tin pan, which had Frisbee written on it. When Walter Frederick Morrison thought of the idea of making saucer like disks to play catch, he visited the campus of Yale and noticed people there were using the pie pan to play catch so he therefore renamed his invention to Frisbee.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Harley Proctor got the idea to name the soap "Ivory" while he was listening to a bible reading at a church in 1879.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - High Priests in ancient Egypt were the only ones who were allowed to wear garments made from cotton.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - In 1902, the coat hanger was invented Albert Parkhouse who was frustrated at the lack of hooks available to hang up his coat at work. His company thought it was a good idea and patented the invention and, unfortunately, Parkhouse never received any money for his idea.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - In 1903, there were originally only eight Crayola crayons in a box and they sold for five cents.
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